linux-kernel - [ 19/59] USB: serial: fix race between probe and open

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:06:30 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Johan Hovold <jhovold@...il.com>
Subject: [ 19/59] USB: serial: fix race between probe and open

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@...il.com>

commit a65a6f14dc24a90bde3f5d0073ba2364476200bf upstream.

Fix race between probe and open by making sure that the disconnected
flag is not cleared until all ports have been registered.

A call to tty_open while probe is running may get a reference to the
serial structure in serial_install before its ports have been
registered. This may lead to usb_serial_core calling driver open before
port is fully initialised.

With ftdi_sio this result in the following NULL-pointer dereference as
the private data has not been initialised at open:

[  199.698286] IP: [<f811a089>] ftdi_open+0x59/0xe0 [ftdi_sio]
[  199.698297] *pde = 00000000
[  199.698303] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[  199.698313] Modules linked in: ftdi_sio usbserial
[  199.698323]
[  199.698327] Pid: 1146, comm: ftdi_open Not tainted 3.2.11 #70 Dell Inc. Vostro 1520/0T816J
[  199.698339] EIP: 0060:[<f811a089>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0
[  199.698344] EIP is at ftdi_open+0x59/0xe0 [ftdi_sio]
[  199.698348] EAX: 0000003e EBX: f5067000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 80000600
[  199.698352] ESI: f48d8800 EDI: 00000001 EBP: f515dd54 ESP: f515dcfc
[  199.698356]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[  199.698361] Process ftdi_open (pid: 1146, ti=f515c000 task=f481e040 task.ti=f515c000)
[  199.698364] Stack:
[  199.698368]  f811a9fe f811a9e0 f811b3ef 00000000 00000000 00001388 00000000 f4a86800
[  199.698387]  00000002 00000000 f806e68e 00000000 f532765c f481e040 00000246 22222222
[  199.698479]  22222222 22222222 22222222 f5067004 f5327600 f5327638 f515dd74 f806e6ab
[  199.698496] Call Trace:
[  199.698504]  [<f806e68e>] ? serial_activate+0x2e/0x70 [usbserial]
[  199.698511]  [<f806e6ab>] serial_activate+0x4b/0x70 [usbserial]
[  199.698521]  [<c126380c>] tty_port_open+0x7c/0xd0
[  199.698527]  [<f806e660>] ? serial_set_termios+0xa0/0xa0 [usbserial]
[  199.698534]  [<f806e76f>] serial_open+0x2f/0x70 [usbserial]
[  199.698540]  [<c125d07c>] tty_open+0x20c/0x510
[  199.698546]  [<c10e9eb7>] chrdev_open+0xe7/0x230
[  199.698553]  [<c10e48f2>] __dentry_open+0x1f2/0x390
[  199.698559]  [<c144bfec>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x2c/0x50
[  199.698565]  [<c10e4b76>] nameidata_to_filp+0x66/0x80
[  199.698570]  [<c10e9dd0>] ? cdev_put+0x20/0x20
[  199.698576]  [<c10f3e08>] do_last+0x198/0x730
[  199.698581]  [<c10f4440>] path_openat+0xa0/0x350
[  199.698587]  [<c10f47d5>] do_filp_open+0x35/0x80
[  199.698593]  [<c144bfec>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x2c/0x50
[  199.698599]  [<c10ff110>] ? alloc_fd+0xc0/0x100
[  199.698605]  [<c10f0b72>] ? getname_flags+0x72/0x120
[  199.698611]  [<c10e4450>] do_sys_open+0xf0/0x1c0
[  199.698617]  [<c11fcc08>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
[  199.698623]  [<c10e458e>] sys_open+0x2e/0x40
[  199.698628]  [<c144c990>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36
[  199.698632] Code: 85 89 00 00 00 8b 16 8b 4d c0 c1 e2 08 c7 44 24 14 88 13 00 00 81 ca 00 00 00 80 c7 44 24 10 00 00 00 00 c7 44 24 0c 00 00 00 00 <0f> b7 41 78 31 c9 89 44 24 08 c7 44 24 04 00 00 00 00 c7 04 24
[  199.698884] EIP: [<f811a089>] ftdi_open+0x59/0xe0 [ftdi_sio] SS:ESP 0068:f515dcfc
[  199.698893] CR2: 0000000000000078
[  199.698925] ---[ end trace 77c43ec023940cff ]---

Reported-and-tested-by: Ken Huang <csuhgw@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
@@ -1059,6 +1059,12 @@ int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interfac
 		serial->attached = 1;
 	}
 
+	/* Avoid race with tty_open and serial_install by setting the
+	 * disconnected flag and not clearing it until all ports have been
+	 * registered.
+	 */
+	serial->disconnected = 1;
+
 	if (get_free_serial(serial, num_ports, &minor) == NULL) {
 		dev_err(&interface->dev, "No more free serial devices\n");
 		goto probe_error;
@@ -1083,6 +1089,8 @@ int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interfac
 		}
 	}
 
+	serial->disconnected = 0;
+
 	usb_serial_console_init(debug, minor);
 
 exit:


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